Empowering girls in Bangladesh through karate, climate-smart gardening, & more
In Bangladesh, 40 million people are food insecure, with 11 million suffering from acute hunger. One of the key objectives of CARE’s innovative nutrition project Joint Action for Nutrition Outcome (JANO) is to address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls. With different innovative approaches including community participation, JANO has already reached over one million people where 61 percent a
Read MoreThe Rohingya refugee crisis: long after the headlines have faded
For decades, the Rohingya, an ethnic and religious minority in Myanmar, have been experiencing persecution. Almost a million refugees have fled into Bangladesh since the 1980s to seek refuge from extreme violence, numbers compounded by the military aggression in August 2017 that added an estimated 725,000 to the number of displaced people.
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Hope and resilience on World Humanitarian Day 2023
World Humanitarian Day 2023 is on August 19th. For WHD23, CARE is calling attention to the harrowing experiences of refugees fleeing conflict, and the universal longing all people have for stability, safety, and equality. We’re honoring the struggles and resilience of refugees from around the world -- from Leen's work as a community organizer in Türkiye to the challenges faced by refugees in camps
Read MoreBangladesh: The poorer the mother, the less likely she has access to skilled delivery support
Most of the complications from which women die are preventable. Access to maternal care and skilled birth attendants is believed to be of utmost importance in reducing maternal mortality — yet almost half of all births in Bangladesh still take place at home without the help of skilled birth attendants.
Read MoreCARE Bangladesh Drives Social Behavioral Change in Access to Antenatal Care
Since 2021, CARE Bangladesh has run multiple social behavioral change communication (SBCC) campaigns on Facebook and Instagram addressing health topics such as COVID-19, maternal health, and childhood immunization.
Read MoreBangladesh: In the world’s largest refugee camp, a “place of peace.”
Thousands of girls like Sufaira live in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The camps are not a healthy place for girls to grow up, which is why CARE Bangladesh runs 12 Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), locally known as the “Shantikhana,” (literally: “place of peace”) across eight camps, the largest temporary home of refugees in the world.
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